Awesome Music

The Eclectic Method helps us usher in the 5th season of the beloved Bob’s Burgers with the Tina Belcher Moombahton Remix, a funky, funny ode to the cartoon family’s hormone-filled, social skill-lacking eldest child. Yeah, we’ve all been there.

Inspired by Brett Domino’s lessons on the subject, Swedish songwriter Roomie went one further by showing that about only talent you need to make a hit song is the ability to pull out your credit card, download backing tracks and an auto-tune app.

(NSFW) Comedian and rapper David Burd aka Lil Dicky tells a hilarious story of a slacker who desperately wants to make love with his date, who soon becomes his girlfriend, then his wife. Get his mixtape here.

Flautist Youkie Ota was in the midst of a solo competition when a butterfly decided to land right on her face. Not only did she manage to not skip a note, but the insect seemed like it was in on the act. Robo-butterfly, perhaps?

Musical mashup genius Kutiman forms an amazing, soulful ballad out of YouTuber KarMaRedd’s original song and 22 other YouTube videos. Give It Up is a track from Kutiman’s upcoming album Thru You Too.

Donald Glover aka Childish Gambino puts his aggressive flow on pause and dons his Frank Ocean impression for Sober, a smooth R&B track over an ice cold beat. From him upcoming mixtape STN MTN / Kauai.

YouTuber Oliver, Age 24 asked his followers to send him tweets he could use as lyrics for a new song. The nonsensical end result is a surprisingly catchy pop song, accompanied by some high quality Free-D drawrings.

Musician Andrew Huang decided to play a rendition of the 1980s new wave hit 99 Red Balloons using nothing but actual red balloons – and a ton of editing. We’re not sure if these are the German or the English lyrics though.

Leave it to heavy metal guitarist Charlie Parra del Riego to find a way to take Gershon Kingsley’s head-boppingly catchy classic 1969 synthpop tune Popcorn and make it rock. It’s the official theme song for making popcorn this way.

An impressive dubstep cover of the Tetris theme song played on an Ableton Launchpad controller by SoNevable, complete with bricks zipping across the the device’s light up buttons as his fingers go flying across them.

The Woburn is the middle child in Marshall’s line of speakers. It has two 5.25″ woofers and two 1″ tweeters, as well as two 20W and one 50W amplifiers. Like the Stanmore, the Woburn has Bluetooth, 3.5mm, RCA and optical inputs.

For their latest episode of The Instrumentals, CDZA invited musician Charles Yang to educate us on some of the greatest string passages of all time. Even if you don’t know the music, you’ll be wowed by Yang’s bowing.

The One I Love is a gentle track from Blonde Redhead’s ninth album Barragán. Check out the entire playlist to listen to a couple more tracks from the dream pop band’s latest release.

Musician Bill Ruppert demonstrates how to reproduce Vangelis’ epic theme music from Blade Runner using nothing more than an electric guitar and Electro-Harmonix‘ effect pedals. It’s the kettledrum part that really gets us.

On The Tonight Show, Adam Levine faced off with Jimmy Fallon to sing a random selection of songs, done in the style of famous musicians. While this is right in Fallon’s wheelhouse, Levine is a surprisingly solid vocal impressionist too.

One of two unreleased tracks that leaked this week, You’ll Never See Me Again is classic Adele: tinged with melancholy, but brimming with strength. The songs were supposedly cut from her last album 21. Other one here.

Electric violinist Bryson Andres turns in an impressive and unique arrangement of Sia’s powerful hit track Chandelier using a combination of live string playing and his digital loop pedal. Check out more of his tracks on YouTube.

(NSFW: Lyrics) By editing an old Superchunk video and setting it to the tune of The Prodigy’s classic Smack My B*tch up, YouTuber Diden Didenko has created a bit of pure Internet gold.

In response to a note from a high school music teacher looking for safe-for-school lyrics, Mac Lethal proves his rap prowess knows no bounds, as he spits his rapid-fire rhymes over Mozart’s Turkish March Piano Sonata No. 11.

A car crash plays out in excrutiating slow motion in the music video for Lower Your Eyelids to Die with the Sun, one of M83’s breakout singles. The video was made to promote the re-release of the band’s (currently out of print) first three albums.

Dancers Ricardo Walker and Poppin John show off their incredible control as they perform to a dubstep remix of Michael Jackson’s Beat It. But instead of a dance battle breaking out, it’s a seamless collaboration between the two.

Multitalented musician Jacob Collier does a brilliant a capella rendition of this Stevie Wonder classic, with multi-layered harmonies and beatboxing. And just when you think he’s done, he whips out the musical instruments. More here.

DJ C. Crisci’s alter ego Clap! Clap! samples music and sounds from African tribes and musicians. The result is dominated by percussion and almost always upbeat, but not overbearing, like a passing parade heard through a window.